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I’ve found my ‘Hattie Jacques’!!!! On another note, I’m giving ‘Lost in Austen’ one more chance tonight to see if it gets any better. I’m not finding enough jeopardy in it to shove it along… but fingers crossed. Did you know they’re remaking Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge? Why? Also saw the trailers for the coming…
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When a casualty is required
Since it’s raining AGAIN, I’ve been ploughing on with the draft of my feature. The one with the protagonist who needed a kick up the arse. But, I’ve been mulling things over in my head, and I’ve realised that it’s not just that the protag. is too passive, but the plot lacks a true casualty.…
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what does the night smell of?
“It smells like night in here” The source of the smell was a room-spray scented with nutmeg. I don’t really like nutmeg, but why does it smell like the night? And it really does. I sniffed a nutmeg candle today and it made me think of pillows and sleep. *Edit : just looked ‘nutmeg’ up…
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Writing meme
Been memed by Mr Andrew regarding the writing process. I’m a bit of a splurger initially – I get an idea and make myself write a few notes down. I do this quite a lot, but it’s only a few of those ideas which ‘stick’ and end up whizzing around my head whilst I’m getting…
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Trouble Sleeping
A friend and fellow classmate of mine, Lucy Kaya is one of the writers of ‘Trouble Sleeping’, a feature which was presented at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s now due to be screened on BBC 2 Scotland on 25th August at 10pm – hurrah! Set in Edinburgh, it’s based on the real-life stories…
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A little ultra-violence
Friday saw my final workshop with Miss Read at Uni – practical, useful and well-organised, and quite good fun really – will miss them! Afterwards, ended up seeing ‘Wall-e’ which just hadn’t appealed to me, but oh how wrong I was. What a great little (and I use that in the complimentary sense as it…
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Virgin has helpfully decided to break my email, so I can’t view or send anything – haven’t been able to since yesterday early evening. Called their ‘helpful’ contact number, and it has an annoyingly chirpy message that basically says it’ll be fixed when it’s fixed. At least I could reason with a human, but a…
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The truth isn’t out there always… sometimes it’s JUST a strawberry
1) What the hell is going on with ‘Bonekickers’? 2) If it’s half a treatment but with a little bit more dialogue than it should have, is it a ‘scriptment’? Or is that just a wee bit naff? 3) Is an MFA worth the time, money and effort? You tell me. I’ve got my own…
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Scottish Book Trust
The workshop day at The Scottish Book Trust was great! On what must have been one of the hottest days of the year so far, Anne Donovan read excerpts and talked about her favourite short stories, then we split into groups for some mini-workshops. There were basically 4 different ones throughout the day, and everyone…
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Workshop and Cake…. what’s not to like
Interesting Edinburgh event on 26th July. Particularly interested in the Radio workshop and the cake (of course) : Scottish Book Trust will be hosting an afternoon of events featuring the award-winning writer Anne Donovan (winner of an SAC Book Award and short-listed for the Orange Prize for her first novel, Buddha Da) and exploring the…
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